Quotes by Errors One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error. Samael Aun Weor errorsfightinglight An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty. Samuel Butler devilerrorsmen Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path. Salman Rushdie work-outerrorslying There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. Samuel Butler errorstruthscience When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. Samuel Laman Blanchard adoptionerrorsends Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind - -vividly, forcefully. Samuel R. Delany errorsmindwriting There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. Samuel Butler sourceerrorstruth The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. Samuel Warren Carey errorsbelieffundamentals There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed. Samuel Johnson prejudiceerrorsage Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered. Santiago Ramon y Cajal errorsgeniusdiscovery Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality. Samuel Johnson errorswritingbook All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor. Samuel Johnson errorscriticismmay The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. Samuel Johnson inabilityerrorsinexperience Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge errorssoullying We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. Samuel Johnson errorsmemoriesfall There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. Samuel Taylor Coleridge errorswisemen Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey errorsyesterday Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. Sarah Fielding errorsconfusiondesire In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected. Samuel Johnson errorsfactsfirsts Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy. Samuel Johnson errorseyemind«7172737475767778798081»
